Happy Holidays. Don't be a scrooge. Kyle.
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Ant <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't believe this has to be said, Everyone should STFU about religion > and politics on this thread. It's for Steam HLDS related issues**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mart-Jan Reeuwijk > *Sent:* Sunday, 25 December 2011 1:55 PM > > *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > *Subject:* Re: [hlds] Merry Christmas!**** > > ** ** > > Atheist too, but then I still can be able to convey the message to wish > for everybody a Merry Xmass? > > Its not about christ anyway, its some pagan ritual of like couple thousand > year ago that us "pagans" used to have, 2 weeks of celebrations before > turning to work again, before we where mandatory converted into christians. > Oh, we had some rituals... lets put those in some biblical context... so we > move the village tree from the outside into our houses, let them have a > small stable with child Jesus in it and then its sanctioned... and that 2 > weeks, let cut off every time a day or so, so it gets shortened to a day. > But Jesus was actually born somewhere in spring.... if one would believe > the scientist who researched the whole bunch, for the population count > Maria was traveling for was then, not in winter. and oops, where off a > couple years as well... should be like 2006 right now, or 2015, nobody > knows exactly. The Apostles didn't learn to write till 65 AD or some. > > Well, back to the pagan rite, it was mostly to celebrate the midwinter > turn, as from now the days become longer (on northern half of the world > anyway). Yeah, yeah, that was the 21st... more influence from those > Christian church. > > All of the sudden, the whole Christmas isn't about Christ, or about pagan > rites.... or w/e. Its all make-believe. > > The wishes? its just wishing ppl to have a good time during those days. > Thats bout it. If you feel offended by it, one should get some dose of > humor for those ppl that in the past couldn't seem to get it right. > > so far we got: > - Birth of christ: off by at least 3 months > - pagan winter solstice rite, off for bout 4 days. > - ehm? whats left? getting together and having a good time. > > Now, again: Merry Christmas > > And if you have read above, you know I dont mean it offending. I just wish > you a good time for a specific time period. Thats bout it. You reading more > into it is more you then anything else. > > /me hides for all those Christians that didn't read up their rituals.**** > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* zach isaac <[email protected]> > *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, 25 December 2011, 4:13 > *Subject:* Re: [hlds] Merry Christmas!**** > > I am offensive and I find this atheist.**** > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ant <[email protected]> wrote:*** > * > > yeah I worship satin too**** > > **** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jonah Hirsch > *Sent:* Sunday, 25 December 2011 1:10 PM > *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > *Subject:* Re: [hlds] Merry Christmas!**** > > **** > > I don't celebrate christmas. this is highly offensive to me. You should > feel bad, pushing your religion on everyone.**** > > **** > > /s**** > > -----------------------**** > > Jonah Hirsch > > **** > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Saul Rennison <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > Merry Christmas Natha and all! Hope you all enjoy the holidays, and a > happy new year. **** > > > On Saturday, December 24, 2011, Nathanael Havez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Merry Christmas to all of the users of the HLDS Mailing List! > > > > Natha > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >**** > > -- **** > > **** > > **** > > Kind regards,**** > > *Saul Rennison* > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds**** > > **** > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds**** > > ** ** > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > **** > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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